New Year's Channel 2020 One Earth

 New Year’s Channel 2020 

One Earth  

New Direction

Today is the day of all days that will begin with a new direction

This new direction is one that is of a dire need

This century, this decade

You have played for too long at making promises

The time is up for making promises the time is now for making a stand

If you plan on keeping an extended time on this planet you must change your ways

Sacrifice

We realize by changing your ways  you will have to sacrifice much

As in what you eat, when you eat it, how much of it that you eat,

Where you travel, how you travel, how often you travel

When you live in your house, how is it kept warm, how is it kept cool

What can you do to keep from increasing the spool of spent energy

For each one of you on this planet needs to make a change

Rich or poor it does not matter

Wake Up your children are calling

As for the fires, as for the floods

They should inspire you to do more

No more can you live in the land of your head in the sand

For ignoring the problem will not make it go away

Listen to the cries of children

These cries, you can see it in their eyes

For it should come as no surprise but change is needed

They call out to us, don’t wait

For they can more than anticipate the results of our inaction

You can see it on their faces; you can see it in their nerves

Why do you think when they look at the sky, they look at the ground, they look all around and they wonder what will it take

They need governments who will anticipate the future and act now

The Mirage of our Financial System

Governments need to stop bowing to the Financial World who see

Only the necessities of the Monetary System

That Monetary System is a figment of your imaginations this planet is not

Do not be bought by figments

For this decade is the one

Each government needs to make a stand; it will be unpopular at first, but then and only then will the dissenters start to understand

For the precipice they sit upon will crumble a bit at a time

We are The People of the Earth

You need to be in line to hold out your hand and help another

For it is with each other we will get through this

We are one people many different faces, but one people

This is one planet we live on and as one planet we live on, as one people we have one problem

And that one problem we can all solve together

But we must work together

As we sit on a rock outcrop overlooking the heather

We are tethered to our imaginary worlds

From those imaginary worlds we see

Significant beauty in the heather, significant beauty in the land

But we must understand the heather and the land is only skin deep

Cover it up no one will notice

What is beneath, what has been covered up

For what we cover up we pay for later

As in a small grain of the sand shifts across the land by wind, by water

And as a son and as a daughter they are the ones who will find that grain of sand

For it will land in the most unusual places

Is that sand full of oily toxins; is that sand full of raw sewage

Is that sand touched by chemicals; is that sand filtered so that

Upon the land it looks untouched

But you must understand looks aren’t everything it’s what’s deep inside that counts

For the heart of the Earth Mother pumps constantly

As her heart beat beats so does ours

If she becomes sick and frail and worn and poisoned so do we

We are essentially attached by an umbilical cord

As in what we produce, how we induce, where we mine, where we design, how we see, what we do, is all a part of you and a part of her

You are all infinitely connected with your action creates a reaction, an ebb and a flow

If you constantly take you must understand she will eventually say no

Like any mother who has been pushed to her limit she will say no

Now many of you are wondering what no means

No could come in all forms and these forms are not kindly

We must as a species give back

As in what we have taken away we must replace

We also need to interlace our understandings of our connections with Earth

For as we birth a new idea, a new plan, we need to understand how that new birth will be embraced or interlaced or rejected by the Earth itself

There are so many examples where we have forgotten about the very earth we live upon

For as pollutants are in our soils, are in our waters, are in our oceans, are in our air

We fare poorly with each event

Many times these events are covered up soil covers over, trees are planted, holes are dug in the ground covered up, no one will notice

Pollutants become absorbed or sink to the bottom, no one will notice

Pollutants flushed down streams into a larger body of water, no one will notice

Each situation where you think no one will notice has an accumulated affect

Think of if each one of those no one will notice plans were poured into cups

If each one of those cups we were given as a drink for our meals

We would need to repeal the thought of it

For it would not be out of sight and out of mind it would be there staring you in the face

The reality of the situation would sink in pretty fast

Now we need to do exactly that and by that we refer to fast, we are not referring to stopping eating

Not at all

Conveniences come at a cost

We need to fast from our conveniences

As in anything that seems like a convenience today has a cost

Water bottles great idea at first, but you only need to look around and when you see it has become a Curse

Now that is one example

Clothing, over-abundance of cheap clothing, it too has had an adverse effect on the environment

Our heating supply most of it comes from the ground that is non-renewable as in when

It’s gone it’s gone

What it is doing to the atmosphere is something we should all fear for it used to be clear

When the air was dirty, when the air was unclean

But now that the pollutants are not seen on such a regular place in certain city’s we tend to assume the problem has gone away

The problem is to stay as in when it goes away from one place it arrives in another

You must be well aware that not only do things move in the air, but

They also move in the water

Pollutants you don’t see today are still there they have just moved on

Make a plan for the time is now

As humans you are a capable intellectual bunch

You have had hunches along the way that this problem could stay put for a while

But you have a chance to smile only and only if you choose to dial the number

As in instead of sitting motionless get mobile

The decision makers should be on trial

For  the smiles of young children is what we all look for

Therefore each and every one of us has a role to play in this

Cultures civilizations come and go

But along the way they show what caused them to crumble

They also show their beckon of time

And this world has an opportunity to shine

It just needs to look at the issues in another way through different coloured glasses

Therefore stand up and take a torch

Instead of standing on the porch and looking out at

The serene scene, the beauty in the beyond

You belong right here right now

Some will

And some of you will take a plow and move across the land, and some of you will engineer a plan; some of you will plant a tree; some of you will walk to work; some of you will work from home; some of you will change your diet; some of you will try something new; some of you will refuse to buy it the way you see it; some of you will make a stand; some of you will make a plan; some of you will get together; some of you will look at the heather; some of you will call a friend; some of you will send a letter or two; some of you will get together; some of you will grab a tether; some of you will hold on tight; some of you will shiver in fright; some of you will cry sorrowful tears; some of you will look through the tears; some of you will hold out your hand; some of you will lay out your plan; some of you see the change that’s coming; some of you might find the change unbecoming; some of you will dress anew; some of you will change the view; some of you will clean the water; some of you will stand there with your son and your daughter; some of you think deep in your soul; some of you want to make sure everyone has the same goal; some of you see a beautiful sunrise; some of you see a beautiful sunset; some of you watch across the horizon; some of you listen to exquisite music; some of you sit in nature; some of you

Take another by the hand

And make a grand plan for change

And rearrange your life according to that plan

And only then, only then will you completely understand what is necessary

In this land of ours you each have choice you can rejoice or you can sit in sorrow

Today is the day to seize the new way

Make a stand you will then and only then understand